'They get confrontational and get quite angry and tell us it's their right to allow their dog to pee.'- Jeanette Frost, condo owner

"These guys have hounded almost everyone in this building and they have been nothing but rude, short of chasing people," he said. "I've done what I can, but sometimes when he's gotta go, he goes."

What complicates matters in the dispute is that the strip of grass in question is on the curb-side of the sidewalk, and is, in fact, owned by the city of Vancouver.

Under city bylaws, adjacent property owners have to look after those strips of grass. In this case, the condo owners would be willing to replace the presently-unsightly grass with ornamental rocks of some kind — just as the rental apartment where the dogs live has done.

Some condo owners in Vancouver's South Granville neighbourhood say they are fed up with other people allowing their dogs to ruin the grass outside their properties. (CBC)

But they'd have to get permission from the city to make alterations to the strip of city-owned land, and the city's first choice for filling those areas is grass.

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